President Akufo-Addo has announced a new producer price for Cocoa for the 2020/2021 crop season.
The government has pegged the new price at GHS10, 560 per metric ton of cocoa--- which translates to GHS660 per bag of cocoa.
The current 2019/20 producer price of GHS8,240 per metric ton (GHS514/64kg Bag) was...
Research scientists from the Savanna Agricultural Research Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR-SARI) working on the Pod Borer Resistant Cowpea (PBR Cowpea) variety have been commended for sticking to the confined field trial protocols issued by the National Biosafety Authority.
The adherence to protocol helps to...
The FAO has elaborated a comprehensive Response and Recovery Programme to overcome the impacts of COVID-19 through up-scaled and robust international collaboration
As the impacts of COVID-19 take their toll on human health and well-being around the world, the imperative of producing and ensuring access to healthy food for each...
VC Media, the organisers Ghana Cocoa Awards an industry scheme that recognises and celebrates excellence has opened nominations for the 2nd Ghana Cocoa Awards with over thirty awards up for grabs and scheduled to close on October 16, 2020.
Ghana Cocoa Awards was instituted to shine the limelight on personalities...
Cashew processors in the country have advocated vigorous effort to promote the consumption of cashew products locally to boost demand.
This, they believe, will create a viable and competitive cashew value chain industry to unearth its huge untapped potentials.
According to the cashew processors, despite the high nutrition and economic value...
The Ghana Climate Innovation Centre (GCIC), a pioneering green business incubator, last week held an economy and ecology strategic dialogue themed: ‘The Green Recovery’ as a response to the COVID-induced economic downturn currently assailing the Ghanaian economy.
Agata E. Pawolowska, the World Bank Operations Manager, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone...
Since the first recorded case of COVID-19 in China in November 2019 and its consequent spread across the world in the first quarter of 2020, the pandemic has visited severe hardship on key industries.
In Ghana, the local economy and key industries that support it suffered greatly. Particularly, the agriculture...
While two sectors, industry and services, were decimated by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic as they experienced contraction of 5.7 percent and 2.6 percent respectively, agriculture rather saw a growth of 2.5 percent in the second quarter, according to data released by the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).
The agriculture...
Climate change and climate variability pose serious challenges to national development, especially agriculture - which is the backbone of the country’s economy.
Climate change leads to increases in temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, changes in extreme weather conditions, and reductions in water availability - all resulting in reduction of agricultural...
Solidaridad, an international civil society organisation, has partnered the Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) to promote high quality food safety standards among artisanal palm oil producers.
The partnership is expected to enhance market access for workers in the palm oil value chain, as it will ensure that finished products meet...